Swift Annual 2 again has a good mix of cartoon strips and stories for parents to
read to their your children. As in the first annual there are a few extra strip cartoons
that did not get a mention in the contents - I guess they ran out of room !
Original Price : Unknown
Published by : Hulton Press in 1955
Edited by : Marcus Morris
Dimensions : 21.5cm x 26.5cm with 133 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Rolling Stones - but not one mention of Mick Jagger
- Learn all about silk worms and their cocoons
- Go big-game hunting - with a camera !
- The Topple Twins get their portraits painted
| CONTENTS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| page | page | ||
| Stories | The Topple Twins | 53 | |
| Running Buffalo | 8 | Tom Tex | 57 |
| Polly at the Pantomime | 16 | Swash and Buckle | 80 |
| Tom and the Dragoons | 19 | The Rolling Stones | 87 |
| Arizona Hold-Up | 33 | Our Gang | 92 |
| The Winged Devils | 37 | Sammy and his Speedsub | 96 |
| The Grizzly Bear Gold Mine | 54 | The Runaway Slave | 100 |
| The Punch and Judy Man | 66 | Nicky Nobody | 115 |
| Professor Kitto and the Magic Ray | 75 | The Great Caramba | 126 |
| The Wild Ride through the Fire | 89 | ||
| Fiddles | 93 | Interest | |
| Bill's Great Ride | 103 | Home on the Range | 15 |
| Major Oompah's Big Defeat | 119 | The Ocean Greyhound | 29 |
| The Shell | 130 | All About Dragons | 45 |
| Strips | The Circus Comes to Town | 49 | |
| Paul English | 11 | The Maze | 65 |
| Tarna, Jungle Boy | 25 | An African Big Game Hunt | 71 |
| Roddy, the Road Scout | 44 | Sandcastles on Fire! | 79 |
| page | page | ||
| So You Want to be an Engine-Driver | 84 | Mr Badger's Beautiful Home | 42 |
| How to Make a Colour Disc | 99 | A Visit to the Zoo | 61 |
| Better Late than Never | 107 | Nature's Wonderful Ways | 69 |
| Divers and Steeplejacks | 112 | Silk | 70 |
| Gardening in Miniature | 123 | Insect Wonders | 97 |
| The Koala Bear | 102 | ||
| Nature | A Rustle in the Hedge | 109 | |
| Horses at Work | 22 | A Key to the Endpapers | 133 |